We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

Youth deals only in extremes.